First day of the trip

From the top. Wildflowers near the Texas border, The Windmiill museum at Shattuck, (there is a windmill from the 1930's made in Ark City there) , Red hills in the panhandle of oklahoma. The train depot and harvey house in Wanoka, Okla. If you click on the picture you will see a larger version.




We finally got away some time in the afternoon. Its about 10 p.m. and we are in Canadian, Texas. That's just across the border from the Oklahoma Panhandle.
We crossed lots of wide open prairie today, then hit the red clay hills of the panhandle.
The trip so far has been fairly uneventful, which is good.
We stopped in Wanoka, Oklahoma. Its a small town but very cool. We have come across several neat little towns in Okie-land. You can really tell a difference between those that have pride and those that do not. Wanoka has its train depot preserved very nicely and has one of the original Harvey Houses still in operation.
Lots of muruals. Nice downtown.
We went through Shattuk, Okla. We didnt stop but we went by the windmill museum, which is kinda cool but we have been there before.
We went by the salt flats near Alva.
We got into Canadian and are suffering a bit of sticker shock for a hotel.
The first one we went to didnt look too terribly bad but you had to walk down to one of the rooms to inquire about a room. This really strange looking blonde chick was straightening up her clothes as she came out of the room and told me how much the room would be. At least i think that's what she wanted $70 for.
We kept looking.
Found a pretty nice place but it cost more than we wanted to pay.
Canadian is kind of a tourist trap looks like. On the map it was another 50 miles to the next town that would have a hotel, so we just went with this.
One thing that looked really cool is a trail that goes across the river. Looks like they have converted an old train bridge into a walking trail. We are going to check that out in the morning.
It is a tourist trap of sorts, but it looks like they have done a lot with their little town.

Probably wont post in the a.m. :) so this will have to count.